June 2004

Wednesday 30 June

  • Free Porn via Fox News (22:03) - I was watching Fox News, during Greta Van Susteren, during which a promo for Your World with Neil Cavuto came on about protecting kids from porn. Well this is what I saw, a poor attempt to censor porn!! ...
  • Urban Modeling in Philadelphia (12:16) - The Cartographic Modeling Laboratory at UPenn offers a number of tools for exploring urban data in Philadelphia. New residents or those looking to move elsewhere in the city can benefit from the interactive crimebase map and neighborhood information map. If...

Tuesday 29 June

  • This Is Your Brain on P2P (22:19) - The latest issue of Wired Magazine prints a letter I wrote to them concerning an article in their May issue titled "File-Sharing Is, Like, Totally Uncool". The article is about the MPAA infiltrating junior high schools in order to share...
  • Scans uncover secrets of the womb (19:36) - Ok Ryan, this is not showing dismembered babies...but something even better. Professor Campbell has perfected a technique which not only produces detailed 3D images, but records foetal movement in real time. He says his work has been able to show...

Monday 28 June

  • p-mate (21:37) - The p-mate is for the woman on the go, for the woman who doesn't have time to sit down and pee. Of course you will think: "Does it really work?" You will never find out when you never used the...
  • Have you stopped using IE yet? (11:53) - I have. Especially after reading and testing this analysis of the IE hole. CERT (a division of Homeland Security) recommends you start using Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, Netscape or Opera too. Personally I recommend Firefox. In many/most ways, it is better...
  • Lollapalooza 2004 Cancelled (11:35) - With the first good lineup since maybe the first couple of Lollapalooza's, this summer's festival looked worthy of a visit. Unfortunately Lollapalooza 2004 is no more....
  • FrankenArt (10:46) - This article coins the term FrankenArt (yeah, a little lame) to describe new artforms that are a remix of previous works of art. The article caught my eye as it talks about DJ Danger Mouse's remix of Jay-Z's Black Album...
  • Chinatown Bus Turf Wars (00:27) - Taking a Chinatown bus is a popular way to get from one East Coast city to another these days. With many Chinatown bus companies connecting Boston, New York, Philadelphia and DC, competition is getting cut-throat. Literally. According to the Philadelphia...

Friday 25 June

  • Accent Neutralization (11:06) - With so many call center jobs going overseas to India, many Texans are getting upset when they call customer service and they can't understand the accents. The solution? Send the call center employees to accent neutralization classes where they can...

Thursday 24 June

  • Eurobad '74 (20:11) - Welcome to Eurobad '74, an exhibition of Europe's worst interiors of 1974. What is this all about?...
  • Hatebeak (20:08) - Face-crushing guitars, head-pounding drums, bass so low it’ll make you vacate your bowels, and vocals so scorching, so extreme, they can’t be human. They’re not. This death metal outfit with a parrot for a singer takes your head off with...
  • Reverse Stencil Graffiti (19:02) - The Times is running a story on guerilla marketing which mentions "wash away graffiti", the method of leaving a mark behind via controlled cleaning through a stencil. Novel and there are no rules against unlawful cleaning. Too bad it's to...
  • (18:52) - Top headline at Drudge right now: 'F U'. WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Typically a break from partisan warfare, this year's Senate class photo turned smiles into snarls as Vice President Dick Cheney reportedly used a profanity toward one senior Democrat, sources...

Wednesday 23 June

  • Glubco, your complete Middleware and Weaponry Provider (12:26) - Glubco International is my kind of company. Hardcore. Introducing the Magnetron. Nikola Tesla once said: "I pray nightly that I never suffer an internal burn." I pray nightly for that exact reason. Take your television apart. Take your microwave apart....
  • mp3s for rubles (07:31) - Gear Live has a writeup about allofmp3.com, a russian website offering mp3 downloads for a penny a megabyte. At this price you can pick up a full length album for about a dollar, and you get to choose the format...
  • Street Memes (06:54) - Street Memes is a stencil gallery that takes submissions via the web or camera phone. It looks like it is just getting started as the gallery is smaill at this point, but should be interesting to watch grow....

Tuesday 22 June

  • Spiderman India (13:26) - Readers of this series will not see the familiar Peter Parker of Queens under the classic Spider-Man mask, but rather a new hero – a young, Indian boy named Pavitr Prabhakar. As Spider-Man, Pavitr leaps around rickshaws and scooters in...
  • Energy From Space or A Job For SpaceShipOne (13:19) - Wired News is running a story right now about beaming concentrated solar energy from orbit back to Earth. Unfortunately, it seems that NASA has given up on funding research on the idea as a matter of priority. Another victim of...

Monday 21 June

  • Mogi (17:17) - Mogi is a game where players move outside, pick-up virtual items through their mobile phone interface then trade with other players to complete collections. It is based on a player's location. From the Web interface, players see in real time,...
  • Beam Me Up Scotty (17:01) - Scientists have performed the teleportation of atoms without using a physical link for the first time. While it might not bring the away team back to the ship safely, the technology may offer quite a performance boost to quantum computers....
  • SpaceShipOne (16:46) - Reuters and everyone else is reporting on SpaceShipOne's successful voyage to space and back this morning. The privatization of space travel is a very exciting prospect when compared to NASA's rather stagnant record of advancing travel....
  • Fact Checking Fahrenheit 9/11 (14:36) - Michael Moore is ready to back the facts from his new film even if it leads him to court. "Any attempts to libel me will be met by force," he said, not an ounce of humor in his familiar voice....
  • disjointed fixed (14:27) - Something broke, leading to the inability to post new articles. Should be fixed now....

Friday 18 June

  • Moviebeam (17:03) - I came across this article today about Disney rolling out their Moviebeam service that delivers near-DVD quality movies to a set top box by broadcasting the data over NTSC signals. It is of interest to me as I worked for...

Thursday 17 June

  • May I Help You (Dumbass)? (11:46) - People trying to get internet tech-support often "misdial" the phone number, and get me. So I try to help. This is what happens. Matt Besser of Upright Citizen's Brigade put together a CD of these calls. You can listen to...

Wednesday 16 June

  • Plastikman | Live (13:48) - On June 4th at the Mutek electronic music festival in Montreal, Richie Hawtin performed his Plastikman material live for the first time since 1995. "The performances from that era, Glastonbury, the Fuk tour, etc, have gone down in the annals...
  • If you buy diamonds, you are supporting terrorism (01:16) - A UN court corroborates links in a new book called "Blood From Stones" which shows that West African diamonds are supporting terrorist groups including al Qaeda and Hezbollah. I think it's now time to demand that the White House spend...

Tuesday 15 June


Monday 14 June

  • Feds Allege Ohio Mall Terror Plot (12:06) - A Somali native living in Ohio has been charged with plotting with other al Qaeda operatives to blow up a Columbus-area shopping mall, according to an indictment unsealed Monday.The four-count indictment, returned by a grand jury in Columbus, Ohio, charges...

Friday 11 June


Thursday 10 June

  • Cold Turkey (09:48) - "If you want to take my guns away from me, and you’re all for murdering fetuses, and love it when homosexuals marry each other, and want to give them kitchen appliances at their showers, and you’re for the poor, you’re...

Wednesday 9 June

  • More hot Tetris action (00:59) - "From the dudes who brought you ghetto ninja turtle costumes, come ghetto tetris costumes"!!! ...
  • Church of Tetris (00:50) - Oh, Tetris, thy Glory great, Give us today our daily blocks, So that we may clear them. And give us strength, Through our gaps and mistakes, To obtain a tetris. Start. "The Church of Tetris is founded on the belief...

Tuesday 8 June

  • Former NOW President...still pro-choice...but says Reagan changed her (18:42) - Often when I am making political and social arguments, I include articles and references designed to say "see, you're wrong" to the reader. This is not that at all. In fact, this article profoundly moved me, and I felt compelled...
  • Self Cleaning Glass (14:54) - The Pilkington Activ glass has a special nano-scale - extremely thin - coating of microcrystalline titanium oxide which reacts to daylight. This reaction breaks down filth on the glass, with no need for detergent. When water hits it, a hydrophilic...
  • Rampage in Granby (00:10) - "He's put armored plates all around it and it's impenetrable," said business owner Terri Hertel, her voice trembling as gunfire rattled in the background. "Armor- piercing bullets won't go through it. He's destroying the town of Granby." "I saw the...

Monday 7 June

  • AirPort Express with AirTunes (15:34) - PC & Mac users alike should be drooling over this. "Enjoy your iTunes music library in virtually any room of your house. Share a single broadband Internet connection and USB printer without inconvenient and obtrusive cables. Create an instant wireless...

Thursday 3 June

  • Old Railway Maps of Taiwan (21:36) - And you thought the New York subway map was confusing... Old Railway Maps of Taiwan [from del.icio.us]...
  • Rumor aside, draft's return most unlikely (16:52) - When you see something like HR 163 you can't help but get a little nervous. H.R.163 Title: To provide for the common defense by requiring that all young persons in the United States, including women, perform a period of military...
  • salt (12:31) - "More colorful brilliance from the hulls of Toronto’s salt-encrusted sugar fleet." These are beautiful photos ...I just wanted to share....
  • ok47 (00:06) - Some sexy images to condemn potential human life (aka beat off) to. ...

Wednesday 2 June

  • Study says Prozac more effective than Therapy (11:14) - The NY Times reports that according to a new government study, Prozac has been found to be more effective in treating teens with depression than talk therapy. I for one am completely against all the pill popping this country does,...

Tuesday 1 June

  • Craigslist Columbus (14:03) - Columbus is moving into the big time! Without further adue I present to you http://columbus.craigslist.org/. Maybe some of you Columbus ladies could use a benefactor... can you keep your mouth shut?...